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Something I find very interesting are the under the surface conditions in some bodies of water https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-469...

I wonder if you could get around this by having a multi CPU machine setup (many vendors silicon) and have a "Generals problem" algorithm ?

Or both. I’m 6ft6 and 254 lbs

Maybe water is getting in and out at differing rates

Indeed. We have an aging Audi that has adaptive cruise control. Recently the radar unit failed. To get it replaced at a dealer will cost about half of what the car is worth.

My iPhone 8 Plus has landscape mode

It wasn’t very different 25 years ago when I worked there. I remember going to a viewing for a “2nd hand” apartment. I arrived 5 mins early. Swedes take their shoes off upon entering a place, there were so many people viewing the flat that there was a queue of shoes outside. I turned around and went back to think again. I was close to giving up and coming back to London, when a “friend of a friend” had a place he was leaving was offered to me. I was very lucky

My iOS developer story ended shortly after I attempted to start back in 2008. To run apps I’d written on a device I had to sign up and pay for an account, which I was ok with. Then my account was suspended until I proved who I was with a scan of a government issued document. As a non US citizen my ID had little protection so I said no. After a few months apple agreed and refund my $99. So I’ve never written for iOS. The upside was I made a small profit thanks to a swing in the exchange rate :)

And John Lewis is owned by the staff

I don’t think there are any sub £30k Audis that do sub 6s to 60. Base S3 is £38k

I have this problem too. I’m 2m tall and 118kg. I destroy most sitting or sleeping things eventually. It’s surprisingly reasonable to get custom made mattresses in the uk. Current one is 2.10m long. Perfect

If I'd have been interviewing you we'd have talked about those two projects a lot. Especially the OS kernel :)

I currently have two hobby projects "in development". An bot trader (it broke even over 6 months with pretend money).

And a logic analyser using a Raspberry Pi Pico board and the excellent sigrok software - this project took a baby step to being non hobby when another dev found it and raised some issues.

Don't stop with the hobby projects

Sounds like it's going to be similar to the local London trains. i.e private companies running the system with "Transport for London" branding.

I'm 200cm and been an ad-hoc tourist attraction in various places I've visited :) Except Hanover, where everybody seemed just as tall

There is at least one massively scaled system that relies heavily on software, that doesn't often get a mention because it just works. When was the last time you picked up a land-line phone and it didn't work because of a fault on the system?

I tried to repair some electronics on a modern car and it was impossible for me to buy a new SIM card holder of the same sort. The dealer would happily take £3k off me for a new unit. I’ve now got a salvaged waiting to go in

It's interesting how devices have gone. Nokia, when they were focused, were making devices smaller, cheaper and with improved battery life. Now we get these giant devices that need re-charging daily and cost >£1000

I’ve worked with 0.1x engineers, where the whole team is slowed down. It becomes very draining.

This is why I’ve retired and am just doing my own projects

Quad-input. Luxury. All we had was a BC108

One of the locations used for the TV series was the BBC technical training centre. As an 80' graduate engineer I "enjoyed" the "behind the iron curtain" feel to the accommodation. The onsite bar made up for it.

According the uk official national statistics manufacturing product sales for 2019 was £396 billions.

I’m 55 and have been studying for a degree in Mathematics. I’m about 2/3 the way through. It’s a challenge but enjoyable

In the context of London and the UK “get tossed in prison” has an alternative meaning

I couldn’t stretch to an A440, but did get an A310. What a great machine. It was blindingly fast for the time (1987). In about 1994 it still out performed a new 486DX100 PC

This book was never too far away when I worked in electronics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Electronics

This reminds me of my time spent working as an engineer in BBC television in the late 80s. There was a lot of kit designed and built by the BBC design department. It Was just so well designed, built and documented. In the 90’s it all started to go digital and less fun to maintain

I’ve got a Dell m4600 that I bought in 2011. I specifically chose it so that I could upgrade. It’s now got a new SSD, HDD and 24GB of RAM. It works well enough for most things, but not video editing.

My career got started because of these programmes.

I even spent 5 years working as an engineer at the BBC. There were plenty of BBC micros around performing ad-hoc tasks.

Something else that was introduced, that we all take for granted these days, was anti-aliased fonts. At the time it was a huge leap (for me at least)

More like fast forward 10 years. By ‘97 most mobile devices ( the ones I came across at least) had started to use ARM. Even Palm devices eventually used ARM CPUs